Tiyatien Health is a non-profit organization working towards rebuilding rural healthcare in war-torn countries. This charity brings medical care to some of the most remote corners of Liberia. It was implemented by a group of Liberian civil war survivors and American healthcare workers to seek justice for Liberia’s healthcare crisis. Raj Panjabi, Alphonso Mouwon, Weafus Quitoe, Marcus Kudee, Theo Neewrayson, and Amisha Raja co-founded the organization and were later joined by Peter Luckow in 2009. The name “Tiyatien Health”, meaning ‘justice in health’ in the local language came to be known as Last Mile Health in 2013. This organization recruits, trains, and manages members of the community, to provide safe healthcare for those in need that
The biblical worldview is essentially the integration of fundamental biblical teachings to become a meaningful and unified response to the routine opportunities and challenges of modern life. An individual wholly inscribed into a biblical worldview projects a belief system that the core purpose of existence is to love and serve the Lord God alone. Essentially, a Christian worldview is formed in reference of the infallible living Word of God (Tackett, 2014). After a believer fully believes the living Word of God then allows it to form the basis of everything in their life. That implies, for instance, that when a believer chooses to pursue Romans 13 to respect people in authority then must take priority in voting and electing new leaders into power. A bible believing person should lead a life that portrays the biblical teachings and truths. As practical Christians our gut reaction should be limited to the biblical established truths (Wayne, 2014).
Banner Health is one of the nonprofit and innovative organizations that has sprung in about seven states. The organization was officially created when two nonprofit organizations that is Samaritan Health Systems and Lutheran health System merged on September 1st 1999. Both organizations had long standing history of providing extensive health care to American West and Mid- west. As Banner health`s vision is to “be a national leader recognized for clinical excellence and innovation, preferred for a highly coordinated patient experience, and distinguished by the quality of our people” (Banner Health, 2016, p.1). It has been showing it`s reinvented and innovative effectiveness of giving excellent care to their patients thus
In dealing with ethical dilemmas, nonprofit managers face a whole host of challenges that defy a simple choice between right and wrong. When there is no obvious way of prioritizing responsibility, resolutions of such dilemmas require careful consideration when looking at ethical options. It is critical that decisions serve not only to the immediate problem, but also align with the organization’s mission, values, and ethical code. Recently, my fiancé was involved in an ethical dilemma at her nonprofit organization. In this particular instance, the charity received a donation of highly sought after season football tickets, under the pretense that the season tickets would be offered to the general public, in an attempt to raise awareness for
As a child growing up I was taught that being a business man was substantial in becoming a man. My father always made it his responsibility to engineer the foundation of business. His main goal for his son was to become an entrepreneur. Unfortunately, I became interested in a different field. With the same intentions of staying in business, business analyst grew on me unexpectedly. My father being the disciplinarian kept me business orientated but sports had an effect as well. Life began to hit me once I was leaving High School. As a high school student, I chose to take business classes but my attention was more so in sports. As a basketball player for 1-2 years and taking business classes, I became distracted in finding my career until I took this business class. The business class involved analyzing a business organization to examine its weakness and
Live on Grades is a non-profit organization that supports undergraduate students complete their degree. Live on Grades encourages students to reduce their working hours (if any) and study harder to obtain higher grades. Students may be eligible to apply and get rewarded if they earn top grades such as A or A+. All processing including eligibility verification, application forms, and compensation requests are automated using Live on Grade’s website. The goal of Live on Grade is to keep students in school for better future, a society with higher education, and a community with less crime (Wise, 2013).
“The only real nation is humanity” (Farmer 123). This quote represents a huge message that is received in, Tracy Kidder’s, Mountains Beyond Mountains. This book argues that universal healthcare is a right and not a privilege. Kidder’s book also shows the audience that every individual, no matter what the circumstances, is entitled to receive quality health care. In the book Kidder represents, Paul Farmer, a man who spends his entire life determined to improve the health care of impoverished areas around the world, namely Haiti, one of the poorest nations in the world. By doing this the audience learns of the horrible circumstances, and the lack of quality health care that nations like Haiti live with everyday, why every person has the right to healthcare no matter what, and how cost effectiveness should not determine whether or not these people get to live or die. Two texts that also argue this idea are Monte Leach’s “Ensuring Health Care as a Global Human Right,” and Darshak Sanghavi’s “Is it Cost Effective to Treat the World’s Poor.” Leach’s article is an interview with Benjamin Crème that illustrates why food, shelter, education, and healthcare are human rights that have to be available to everyone. He shares many of the same views on health care as Farmer, and the two also share similar solutions to this ongoing problem. Leach also talks about the rapidly growing aids epidemic, and how it must be stopped. Like farmer, he also argues that it is easier to prevent these diseases then to cure them. Furthermore, Sanghavi’s article represents many of the questions that people would ask about cost effectiveness. Yet similar to Farmer’s views, Sanghavi argues that letting the poor d...
WellStar Health Systems is currently the preeminent and largest health care provider in Metro Atlanta. WellStar Health Systems is a not-for-profit institution that is composed of 5 hospitals and an abundance of physician groups. Physician specialty groups included within WellStar are: ENT, Psychiatry, Endocrinology, Pulmonary Medicine, Infectious Disease, General Surgery, Rehabilitation, Pathology, and Rheumatology. WellStar’s organizational design is composed of internal and external factors that define the organization’s size, organizational structure, and processes. Internal and external factors are the basis for influencing managerial conclusions in decision-making. These factors vary from organization to organization and are the rationale for understanding WellStar’s strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats. Understanding these variables is a necessity for the sake of WellStar’s survival
While the positive impact of healthcare information technologies (HIT) has been proven by numerous researches and case studies. This document is going to explore and analyze leadership and organizational behavior inside of Information Systems (IS) department within Dignity Health Corporation. In this case study, a detailed examine of ethics in behavior of company resources during the implementation of Electronic Health Records project, will uncover organizational problems and unethical behavior of contactor companies for the execution of a given project. Information Systems impact plays a very important role in modern healthcare, it facilitates clinical stuff to do their job faster, easier, and better. Therefore, the efficiency of Information Systems is vital for improvements in organizational outcomes for the whole Enterprise.
Banner health is non- profit organization dedicated to provide quality care to the patients. It provides a quality care to the patients in various specialized ares of health care such as cancer care, heart care, rehabilitation care, post surgical care, pediatric care and others (Bannerhealthcare, 2015). 29 hospitals and other medical centers are operated by banner health care and “it provides a more than $153 million in charity care”(Bannerhealthcare, 2015). The goal of banner health care is to optimize the excellence in clinical care, innovation, research technologies and others (Bannerhealthcare, 2015). This paper explains the readiness of the banner health care in addressing
Nonprofit and for-profit businesses have multiple similarities and differences. For-profit organizations are very different from non-profit organizations because the driving goal of a for-profit organization is increasing its revenue whereas a non-profit organization will not go out of business if it suffers financial loss or does not have a bottom-line. The marketing process also differs, with the biggest differentiating factor of profit marketing is to encourage customers to buy and while the nonprofit marketing purpose is usually to encourage people to give. This means that the return on investment differs between the two. Although the principles of marketing remain the same, some of the methods must, of necessity, be different. Because of the intense involvement in the community as well as support from government, agencies non-profit firms should not compete in the same markets as for profit companies nor in anyway position their organization in any way to give the impression that their efforts could be commercial based (Nelson, 2002).
The TASO model catered to the community because it allowed flexibility and confidentiality. If a patient was unable to travel to the facility, they were able to have their treatment brought to them. This helped many who were unable to afford the travel to a facility, but also those who were not able to physically go and receive treatment from a facility. On the other hand, those who did not want to disclose their medical situation to another were able to have their treatments done at the facility, which maintained confidentiality (Ellner, et al. p. 14). If a patient had access to a phone and had a question or concern, they were able to call a hotline to receive advice. For those in more rural areas, TASO was able to build outreach centers
With advanced technology, nursing is more connected and interdependent. The nursing professional unit is able to lobby to both local and international community organizations on behalf of the African community from anywhere in the world. Funding and education are necessary for this well needed community in order to assist in a caring and positive manner to combat their diagnosis of diabetes or related symptoms. With the increase in world-wide travel, infectious diseases now spread across the world at an alarming rate. Madeline Leininger, a well-known theorist in nursing, stated that “globalization implies an ethical and moral obligation for professional nurses to enter and function in a worldwide community” (Nursing Theories, 2011b).
The healthcare crisis in Africa is a prominent issue that affects all of Africa's residents in some way. The crisis affects African's because preventable diseases and poor living sanitation causes them to have low life expectancy. The high rate of preventable diseases being transmitted throughout the population includes tuberculosis, STI's, HIV/AIDS, and malaria. The issue of healthcare in Africa affects all of the poor people who have limited access to treatment, supplies, healthcare professionals, health facilities, or education. The healthcare system in Africa is inefficient in poor areas and an example includes living in unsanitary, poverty stricken areas that results in malnutrition, infections or viruses, death, and an ...
In contrast, my sense of being powerless is further strengthened after I realized global health problems cannot be solved simply through increasing funding and human resources. In fact, global health problems are tied with contingent factors. The local political, social and economic aspects all need to be taken in consideration when designing a global health model. Any careless actions can lead to unintended consequences, affecting several human lives. Indeed, all the big talks had overwhelmed me until I learned about the community partners approach used by UNICEF and Partner In Health in several global designs such as Rwanda.
people’s clubs in the town so the idea of some form of day centre came